Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Aug 2009 19:37 UTC
Using his blue box, Steve Wozniak once called the Vatican (for free), and, imitating Henry Kissinger's voice, asked if he could speak with the pope. The pope turned out to be asleep. Wozniak pulled these pranks together with Steve Jobs, with whom he'd found Apple computer not long after. Oh, how the times have changed. How can a company with its roots in phreaking, pranks, and home-made computing end up the way it is today?
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I have never bought an Apple computer because of looks. Sure I looked at them the same way as maybe a cute girl.
But for me girls/women and computers and everything else have two major parts about them.
Looks and personality. I give up to five points for each for a possible total of ten.
The hottest girl/woman in the world that has a horrible personality gets the same score as an unattractive woman with a great personality. Both of these women would top out at 5 points out of 10.
A girl/woman with decent looks and a decent personality rate higher than both because she would get more than 5 points. Slight better than average in looks and personality is at least 3+3=6.
The personality of Mac Classic OS and Mac OS X (via NeXT) is a personality that is trying to do more than just exist as an efficient machine but to provoke feelings of art in the OS and in the looks of their machines.
Yes their machines have gotten less interesting. Grey is grey is grey. A grey color girl/women would not be as attractive as a tanned girl/woman (be it natural due to ethnicity or sun bathing).
Grey looks sickly. Deathly ill. White looked like purity. Both are/were ... plain.
I have a G3 iMac (not used but it works), a G4 Lamp, a G4 PowerBook (grey and uninteresting) and a white Intel Core 2 Duo iMac (circa Nov 2006).
Yes the earlier ones had more art, more something to them. Thankfully the OS still does. That is what keeps me with Macs. The apps that come with it and the OS itself is better than what you get from Microsoft.
Plug and play is still crappy with Windows when you connect devices to it like a camera or video camera. Why do you still have to install drivers? Shouldn't they already be there? My answer is yes on them already being there and updated through OS updates.
Macs still thrill me but not because of the case anymore so much as the operating system.
I think Apple's, which means Steve Job's, main mindset has been diluted because of iTunes and iPods and now iPhones and iTouches. The clearest point on this is that Apple Inc is not Apple Computers anymore but just Apple.
Just Apple.
Just Apple.
I'm repeating myself here because that's how I'm feeling about Apple.
I'm not switching though. Microsoft is crap. Their products are crap and people are sheep being led to the slaughter house.
Linux is better but only fulfills the geek side of me but not the art side of me that I need. The OS is too industrial. There is no art in Linux. Everything is ugly to look at. Are there any artists involved in Linux? Look at OpenOffice. Actually it is better not to even on Macs. It really needs help in the way it looks.